KVLT Drums II
UgritoneKVLT Drums 2 reaches well past black metal. The field names Norwegian fjords, the buzzsaw sludge of Sweden, the marshlands of Tampa, Bay Area thrash, East Coast death metal and mid-90s Belgian breakdowns as the tones it caters to.
A Mapex Armory kick and five Mapex Armory toms, three snares, twelve named cymbals and 100+ oneshot samples, with fourteen hand-crafted presets. The field gives the tom sizes but never says which are mounted and which stand on the floor. Your own WAV, AIFF and FLAC files load in beside them.
At a Glance
- One kick, three snares a Mapex Armory 22x18, with Mapex Black Panther 14x6,5, Ludwig Black Beauty 14x6,5 and Mapex Warbird 12x5,5
- Five toms Mapex Armory 8x8, 10x7, 12x8, 16x14 and 18x16 — the heading carries no number, five are named
- Twelve named cymbals ten from Sabian, Zildjian and Wuhan, and two named only as Custom Stack 12 and Custom Stack 19
- Fourteen kit presets the field states fourteen and then names fourteen
- 100+ oneshot samples written as 100+, so the set is open and no exact figure is stated
- Not stated sample rate, bit depth, velocity layers, round robins and microphone positions are absent from the field
Content & Detail
The field credits its range to the library as a whole, not to any one part of the kit. It says every kit and sample was crafted for it, and that Bay Area thrash, East Coast death metal and 90s Belgian breakdowns were fused into one drum library. What it itemises is the kit: nine drums and twelve cymbals, ten of those from Sabian, Zildjian or Wuhan and two named only as Custom Stacks.